Only the Strongest did an episode on this. I can't recall if Azul (who has her own cult religion baggage from growing up Mormon) brought it up, or it was a guest, but Capoeira does tick off a bunch of boxes including the use of hidden knowledge ("Write down techniques? No, you must go to the mestre to learn"), a rigid hierarchy (the mestre system, particularly how Brazilian mestres are often raised above a mestre from outside of there), and a tendency to cover up the crimes committed by those in power (the CDO sex scandals led to a _lot_ of people telling their stories. I don't think I ever saw anything, but it makes me wonder what my eyes might have skipped over). You could probably tick off a few more boxes in terms of the emphasis on loyalty to your school (I've known many people who have been forbidden to attend another school in the same area for fear that it might "contaminate" the style) and how the reverence of the mestres also shades into students being required to cough up money to support them for any batizado. And, of course, those aspects are not things which are necessary to Capoeira. I think some parts of it, like the secrecy, date back to the times when Capoeira was for criminals and slaves, who had to keep the style underground, and pledged loyalty because if one person went to the police, they would all hang. Some other parts are because the people in power would like to remain in power, and the people who get promoted to power generally want to keep it as well.
Yeah, the music influences the perception of people. I think that all martial arts are cultists or cultish by nature. Is in human nature create groups (tribe, community, nation etc) and exclude those who don't belong to the group. We call cult a religious group that don't have the numbers to be called a religion. But a religion and cult operate in the same way. How capoeira could be consider a cult beside the music? In my opinion it depend if the Mestre use the cultural mythos in his teaching or not. Words like Mandinga , Axe, Corpo fechado, etc. Words that obviously came from the African religions like Candomble. Therefore your capoeira became an expression of your religion, meaning that you are a subgroup or a cult.
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Only the Strongest did an episode on this. I can't recall if Azul (who has her own cult religion baggage from growing up Mormon) brought it up, or it was a guest, but Capoeira does tick off a bunch of boxes including the use of hidden knowledge ("Write down techniques? No, you must go to the mestre to learn"), a rigid hierarchy (the mestre system, particularly how Brazilian mestres are often raised above a mestre from outside of there), and a tendency to cover up the crimes committed by those in power (the CDO sex scandals led to a _lot_ of people telling their stories. I don't think I ever saw anything, but it makes me wonder what my eyes might have skipped over). You could probably tick off a few more boxes in terms of the emphasis on loyalty to your school (I've known many people who have been forbidden to attend another school in the same area for fear that it might "contaminate" the style) and how the reverence of the mestres also shades into students being required to cough up money to support them for any batizado.
And, of course, those aspects are not things which are necessary to Capoeira. I think some parts of it, like the secrecy, date back to the times when Capoeira was for criminals and slaves, who had to keep the style underground, and pledged loyalty because if one person went to the police, they would all hang. Some other parts are because the people in power would like to remain in power, and the people who get promoted to power generally want to keep it as well.
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Yeah, the music influences the perception of people. I think that all martial arts are cultists or cultish by nature. Is in human nature create groups (tribe, community, nation etc) and exclude those who don't belong to the group. We call cult a religious group that don't have the numbers to be called a religion. But a religion and cult operate in the same way. How capoeira could be consider a cult beside the music? In my opinion it depend if the Mestre use the cultural mythos in his teaching or not. Words like Mandinga , Axe, Corpo fechado, etc. Words that obviously came from the African religions like Candomble. Therefore your capoeira became an expression of your religion, meaning that you are a subgroup or a cult.